LibGuides: Kinesiology: Research Metrics & Data Management

Research Metrics

Research metrics are quantitative measures that can help you in assessing research outputs, at both article level and at journal level. Use the resources on this page to help you understand what they are and how to use them, whether you’re looking to publish your research, editing a journal or guiding colleagues who need more information.

Metrics Toolkit
The Metrics Toolkit is a resource for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact. With the Toolkit you can quickly understand what a metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s good match for your impact question.
Research Metrics Guide @ YUL
This guide provides an overview of standard bibliometric approaches, new alternative metrics, and some common tools for accessing both. It also provides information about the limitations of these approaches for measuring research impact.
What are Altmetrics?
Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. They can include (but are not limited to) peer reviews on Faculty of 1000, citations on Wikipedia and in public policy documents, discussions on research blogs, mainstream media coverage, bookmarks on reference managers like Mendeley, and mentions on social networks such as Twitter.

Research Data Management

Research data management concerns the organization of data, from its entry to the research cycle through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results. Research Data Management (RDM) is part of the research process, and aims to make the research process as efficient as possible, and meet expectations and requirements of the university, research funders, and legislating bodies.

The three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (the agencies)—have launched the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy, which aims to support Canadian research excellence by fostering sound digital data management and data stewardship practices.

Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)_RDM
CARL supports research data management through some of its initiatives and participates in government consultation activities.
Scholars Portal Dataverse
Scholars Portal Dataverse is a publicly accessible Canadian data repository provided as a shared service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL). Dataverse can be used by anyone in the world to deposit, share, and archive research data.